The choice is not a widget per se. The date-time in the model will accept a date time input, however, the calendar icon is a widget, and doesn't come automatically. The date-time has to accept a date, and if you input the date in the textbox in the accepted django format, it will work fine. To have the calendar icon, it is a widget, and you ycan call it by editing the HTML input type, or adding the widget to the views.py
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, 16:49 Anil Felipe Duggirala, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, at 8:41 AM, MR INDIA wrote: > > Answer to this query on stack overflow > > < > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27321692/override-a-django-generic-class-based-view-widget > > > > Raw link: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27321692/override-a-django-generic-class-based-view-widget > > Hope this helps, > > Thanks very much for the link MR INDIA. > That is exactly what Im looking to do, however, its not working for me for > some reason. > How can I check if I am getting the desired result in my rendered HTML? > I am working with a DateTimeField. So I should be getting a > type='datetime' in the <input> tag correct? > > I don't understand why other fields like a CharField with choices, > automatically, renders a <select> tag on my form, without even specifying a > widget for it as described in the link. Is it not expected that a > DateTimeField would render the type:'datetime' in the html form? (without > any additional modifications). The link above was created 6 years ago, has > this not changed in all that time? > > I will show you what I have: > > --models.py-- > class Lesson(models.Model): > ... > time = models.DateTimeField("Fecha y Hora") > > --views.py-- > class LessonCreateView(CreateView): > model = Lesson > template_name = 'new_lesson.html' > form_class = LessonForm > > def form_valid(self, form): # new > form.instance.instructor = self.request.user > return super().form_valid(form) > > --forms.py-- > class LessonForm(forms.ModelForm): > > class Meta: > model = Lesson > fields = ['title', 'time', 'nivel'] > widgets = { > 'time': forms.DateTimeInput() > } > > In my rendered HTML I however get a type="text" for the 'time' field. > Thanks very much for your help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/e60942df-354c-44a6-b041-e132aa61566a%40www.fastmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CACq4Q2ZOr4M5rshJm7CGEnoo8pyc5ytNLV8CHbVsP2rXRBmhPg%40mail.gmail.com.
